An excursion into certain areas of art, computers, philosophy, text, zombies, alchemy, metallurgy, music, food, creativity, pataphysics, politics, France where I worked as a cultural civil servant (yes, I do know that this is appalling), Berlin where I live and work for me, England where I come from, and so on... this may change.

Friday, November 28, 2008

(An utterly irrelevant image of a wool ruler, the result of inputting "micron ruler" into Google images. The astute reader (V.) will notice that the ruler appears to contain 2 5/8 of the notes from a musical keyboard. More research needed here, I think.)

(North) Korean Central News Agency, Nov. 28 2008 (Juche 97)

"The U.S. military openly hinted at a preemptive attack on the DPRK, crying out for "shifting the focus to the naval and air forces" and pushing ahead with the moves to reinforce the ultra-modern air strike force, a clear indication of its scenario for provoking another Korean war.The U.S. imperialist bellicose forces are seriously mistaken if they think they can bring down the DPRK through a strategy for preemptive attack. Should the enemies infringe upon the inviolable sky, land and sea of the country even 0.001mm, the DPRK will mercilessly wipe out provocateurs with the might of Songun and thus remove the root cause of a war from this land. The U.S. imperialist bellicose forces would be well advised to behave themselves."

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Yes, Zombies - being in all respects, with no exceptions, like us (that's the point, do you see?) - can "feel" terror too.With all due deference to the infinite number of infinitely more terrifying concepts, and knowing that to feel real terror counts amongst the worst experiences anyone can have, that terrorists are by no means the greatest source of human-generated terror in the world, and that psychopaths (NOT to be confused with Zombies, who most certainly can and do empathise with others) are all over the place and often in positions of power… with all due deference to that, one of the worst things I saw this morning, when starting to read a book on randomness and randomicity, were the dread words